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Switched.com: "US Government May Be Tracking You With Your Cell Phone"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

This article was posted on Switched.com today: US Government May Be Tracking You With Your Cell Phone, by Terrence O'Brien: It was disturbing enough when the government was just listening in. Now privacy advocates are afraid the government may be tracking our every move through our cell phones. In November of 2007, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to find out how widespread such tracking is. The DOJ didn't hand over the data, so now the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are taking the DOJ to court to force it to comply with the request. The ACLU was spurred into action following a blog post in The New York Times in which some courts expressed discomfort with the government's use of cell phone tracking data without probable cause...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on July 02, 2008 (boomark / email).